The Kremlin has labeled Moldova’s presidential elections as unfair. Election winner Maia Sandu is not a legitimate head of state. Hundreds of thousands of Moldovans living in Russia would not have been allowed to vote at all.
However, Moldovans living in the West and the European Union would have been able to cast their votes. Hundreds of thousands of Moldovans abroad even voted for Sandu’s election victory. As reported, she received 55.3 percent of the vote, but less in her own country than her challenger Alexandr Stoianoglo.
“As for Mrs Sandu – you know that, as we understand it, she is not the president of her country – because in the country itself the majority of the population did not vote for her, and we are talking about a very, very divided society,” the Kremlin told spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday.
Sandu accuses Russia of buying votes
The elections were neither “democratic nor fair”. Sandu’s competitors have backed the traditionally pro-Russian socialists. Sandu had warned several times before the vote about vote buying and fraud. The voters were transported specifically to the Transnistria region. Peskov rejected the accusations, saying there was no evidence for this.
Moldova is divided between pro-European and pro-Russian forces (see video above). In a recent referendum, a narrow majority voted in favor of joining the EU. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, Transnistria seceded in an internationally unrecognized move and turned to Russia. Russian soldiers are stationed there.
Source: Krone
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